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 Organasm - Alchemist
Description: Genre: Hard Rock & Metal - Heavy Metal / Artist: Alchemist / Audio CD released 2004-07-12 at Relapse / Disc #1 ... more  Organasm - Alchemist ... Tracklisting1 Austral Spectrum 2 Evolution 1 The Bio Approach 3 Evolution 2 Rampant Macro Life 4 Evolution 3 Warring Tribes Evential Demise 5 Single Sided 6 Surreality 7 New Beginning 8 Tide In Mind Out 9 Eclectic 10 Escape From The Black Hole Newest Review: ... metal bands, even providing the lead riffs and melodies on occasion and enhancing the depth of the sound immensely, and the ... more ... keyboards provided cooperatively by Bray and Agius (who is also the singer) hark back to the best of seventies space-themed progressive rock without the cheesiness that often comes with the territory.
Agius' vocals are really the only element that doesn't entirely fit and may take some getting used to, often becoming overly hostile in a shouting manner similar to Acid Bath or Fear Factory and then sounding a little hoarse in the calmer sections, but most of the vocal melodies are creative and memorable without veerin...more |
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Organasm - Alchemist: A Colossal Planetary Vulva Consumes (1298 words)
by Frankingsteins - written on 13.12.07 (Very useful, 64 readings)
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Alchemist are one of the very few prominent metal bands from Australia, and their magnum opus 'Organasm' (do you see what they did there?) seems to be unanimously praised as a more than worthy competitor for the big-selling American progressive metal acts that would easily be as successful as Tool if only they hadn't had the rotten luck to live Down Under, where the music scene is rather embarrassingly bad. While there's certainly truth in that claim, it's a little easy to back them as a unique and mysterious band due to their exotic flavour, when in fact their "distinctive" sound is more or less American in origin. Fortunately, this album in ...
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